Between The Covers - Tribute to Rain Literary Magazine
...Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering
Like you, he p...
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Categories:
elderberries, art, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Blank verse
elderberries
...vines wrapped around fence
neatly kept and freshly picked
elderberry pie...
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Categories:
elderberries, food,
Form: Haiku
ODE TO ELEPHANT
...ODE TO ELEPHANT
Elephant Elephant
enveloping essence of Earth !
I hear an elevated trumpet
far in elixired fair forests
my ears etheric ornaments
in your elopin...
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Categories:
elderberries, animal, color, earth, extended
Form: Ode
Wild Mountain Honey
...Old Mountain tales of love spin
'neath dawn's blush,
Elderberries, purple ink drop pearls
drawing me nigh.
Ah! Her laughter just like a honeybee’s dance
in the summer’s rush.
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Categories:
elderberries, adventure, devotion, inspirational love,
Form: Lyric
The Honoring of Al Munsel, Hired Hand
...Dad keeps pestering me.
He wants to go see Al and he wants me to go along.
"Come on; it'll only take a little while," he coaxes.
The thought of the old man, I curl my teenage lip.
Even w...
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Categories:
elderberries, bible, dad, daughter, home,
Form: Narrative
Blue
...Blue
Why is it, if people are sad,
we say they are blue,
when blue is such a happy color?
Blue are electric skies of October
that bring cool breezy weather,
and find children joyfully
jump...
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Categories:
elderberries, color, feelings, introspection, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Blue Color Hues-
...BLUE
Sky's hue color
U blue flowing soft tropical waters quiet
the color is summit roses elderberries
the color is sounding like a foghorn
sounds of school bells
it takes me to...
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Categories:
elderberries, allusion, analogy, blue, color,
Form: Free verse
Tender Is the Day After
...Scratches and abrasions sensate,
stalking, doxing, ghosting drones
have pinched, clawed, and marked.
I remember the sharp edges of yesterday
but cannot recall the moments
when the bumps and b...
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Categories:
elderberries, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Meow
...the catbird
was eaten
by our
neighbor's
cat so now
i can
eat the uneaten
elderberries
but how
to
treat
the cat...
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Categories:
elderberries, muse,
Form: I do not know?
The Great Kiwi Debate
...Our great debate is about to start
Over which aspect is the essential part
Of the word 'kiwi' -- Is it that strange-looking bird
Or is it the green, fuzzy fruit that tastes so darn good?
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Categories:
elderberries, bird, conflict, confusion, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
Honoring You In Living Color
...Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
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Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
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Yellow and ...
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Categories:
elderberries, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Autumn
...Autumn
Welcome!
Chrysanthemum
Cosmos cockscomb hypericum
Let all my sweet memories come
‘Autumn’!
Pears...
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Categories:
elderberries, autumn, beautiful, blue, nice,
Form: Cinquain
Habitat For the Wild By Satis Shroff
...HABITAT FOR WILD (Satis Shroff)
The flora and fauna
have a hard time
In winter.
The white mantle
Of snow covers
The branches, buds and barks.
The owl loves winter
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Categories:
elderberries, animal, april, beauty, winter,
Form: Free verse
Summer's End
...Gone are the summer wildflowers
those many, subtle scented breaths
that once allured nectar seekers
and me to their wild colonies.
But now those lifeless peduncles
that once bore inflore...
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Categories:
elderberries, nature,
Form: Verse